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075 Creating a list using the Table of Contents feature

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The Table of Contents feature in InDesign does more than just create a table of contents. It's a powerful option that can create a list based on paragraph tags, and you can use it to create custom lists according to your needs. In this online tutorial, you'll learn how to make the most of this function, and get a few tips on creating a stylish table of contents.

People usually think of the Table of Contents feature which lives down here at the bottom…of the Layout menu as a way of making the Table of Contents for a book.…And that's logical, of course, but I think a better name for this feature would be Make…a List or Find the Paragraphs, because that's really what it does.…It goes out and finds all of the paragraphs that are tagged with a certain paragraph style…and it makes a list of them.…It doesn't have to be chapter names or heading names, it could be anything.…Sure, here in this catalog we have a table of contents based on Courses, but what if…I wanted a Table of Contents of something else, like the names of the people in all the photographs?…Could I do that?…Well, you can as long as the text lives somewhere in the document, and in this case, I actually…do have the text in the document, you just can't see it. Let me show you.…

I'll go to the Layers menu and turn on my names layer, there it is.…I have gone in and inserted all the names on top of their faces just so it associates…

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9/21/2017

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8/25/2011

In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects.

New techniques will be added to the collection every other week, so check back early and often. Find more tips and tricks at indesignsecrets.com.

Skill Level Intermediate

27h 20m

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